“I have to be really honest, I was completely kind of floored that Madonna was singing my song on her stage every night!” Lady Gaga says in the latest issue of Attitude magazine (via LA Times). “I mean, Madonna‘s…she’s Madonna. I looked up to her for a long time. I’m not quite sure what her intention was — to do that in the show, but I don’t really care.”

Gaga added, “All it meant to me was that Madonna Ciccone was singing my song on her stage and I’m 27. And as a punk-rocker from New York, I’ve basically been hoping that I would become so good that one day I would piss off Madonna!”